non-lucid

WBTB attempt:
I went to sleep around midnight and then woke up at 4:30am. I went out to my livingroom and sat with the lights very dimmed as I worked on waking up my mind. I didn't move around much to keep my body from waking up too much. Went back to sleep at 5:00am - unfortunately no lucids but these following dreams were fairly bright.

Dream 1

I was walking by a bunch of very small stores side by side like a strip mall. Looking in through the windows I notice that they all seem to be mainly selling books, one store sold magazines.

The owner of the magazine store was walking with me and I was going to show her my store which was maybe 5 stores down from hers.

As we are walking I suddenly know that these stores have very cheap leases. I now begin to wonder if some of these stores are personal libraries of some people and not stores at all.

We reach the door of my store, there is a finger scanner I use to unlock the door. But then I notice there’s another scanner beneath it. The second scanner appears to unlock the door via a ‘jawprint scanner’ that a dog bites into with a small enclave going into the wall for a dog to stick its snout into to bite on for identification.

As I’m looking at this weird second scanner I notice there’s drool on it, so a dog (my dog?) must have used it to unlock the door recently.

My shop is also full of books, we end up having coffee at a small glass table out front of the shop. Before we went out I grabbed some paper towels to clean up the dog jaw scanner.

Dream 2

It’s night out and I’m a floating perspective coming down into a parking lot. My view is zooming into one of the many cars there which I am to understand is mine, it’s not the same as my waking life car.

A van hurriedly drives beside my car and someone gets out and crouches by the front bumper and does something then quickly jumps back into the van, the person was dressed in black with a ski mask on.

There was an old man parked on the other side of my car, we were parked nose to nose. He seemed to be living out of his truck as it had all sorts of trinkets and really random items in it.

I’m no longer a floating perspective and I’m now looking at my bumper where the ski mask guy was. I can’t tell that anything was done to my car but I have the feeling that a RFID tag or something similar was applied to some part of my car in that area.

So I went over to the old guy in his truck to ask him if he may have seen what happened. He had a white scruffy beard and really well worn clothes, he had a beanie on his head.
I asked him if he saw what the guys did that pulled up a moment ago. He seemed really aloof and asked me to repeat myself a few times and sort of hinted at not seeing anything but it was hard getting any direct answers out of him.

He then gets a little more lucid and is proud to tell me that he has been scientifically tested and proven to be one of the least likely people to ‘say yes, to trying new things.’

Dream 1

I’m in a FPS video game. The map is huge and it feels like a world-war scenario, sort of past mixed with modern. The dream rapidly goes from feeling like a video game to feeling like real life.

I have some sort of old school assault rifle, a sniper rifle and various grenades attached to my belt.

I work on my positioning carefully and pick off enemy soldiers at range. I switch between the short range and long range rifles often. Eventually I reach 15 kills.

My assault rifle is out of ammo and the sniper rifle takes a long time to load each bullet. My position is known and I’m inside of a small structure now, there are three viking-cannibal enemies coming for me with hatchets.


I frantically search myself for a sort of tank pipe bomb that I saw on my belt earlier as I run towards the corner they will be coming around from. I figure I could at least reach 18 kills if I take them out when they come around the corner, the building would be too small for me to survive the explosion no matter where I set it off.

The enemies pour around the corner right as I reach it, I hurl the explosive down at our feet and it goes off.

Dream 2 (Fragment)

I'm dismantling a video card to see why it's temperatures have been so high. It has two very tiny fans inside and a button between them to adjust how much power they use for faster speeds. It's very dusty in there too.

Dream 3 (Fragment)

I'm talking to someone when I realize I'm wearing a pink hat.

I was planning on a WBTB tonight but ended up cancelling when I got to sleep too late.

Dream 1

I'm in my childhood home in Pennsylvania. I look out the bedroom window to see that Zoë just parked in the driveway and some other dark Honda or Hyundai parks there as well.

The interior of the house doesn’t resemble the house I know at all. Zoë enters the room and is explaining to Tami and me about how her car has been weird recently. She says all the doors can open fine but if she opens the trunk while she's dreaming it wakes her up.

A sort of cutscene shows me testing out opening the trunk and it sends me to France. Then I'm at the car again and I close the trunk and re-open it again. Now I see these magnetic balls repelling each other repeatedly.


Now I'm back in the room with Zoë and Tami, I tell Zoe that when I open the trunk of her car it doesn't wake me up from my dreams, rather it causes weird things to happen. We’re perplexed by this. (How didn’t I get lucid here!)

Dream 2 (Fragment)

I'm playing with this putty-like-material. I learn that if I drag it repeatedly across the same spot on a fabric that it cuts through it. I think it's strongly acidic. I cut some different fabrics with it. The lines from the cuts are very clean.

Dream 1

I'm at some sort of fundraising event. There is a large organization of people involved in the fundraiser outside in a grassy field, we are are splitting up to raise cash in a variety of ways and then will reconvene. Once we meet back up it will be up to each person/group if they want to keep what they raised or donate it to a cause.

As I'm going around, it's not clear how I'm raising money but the cash I have keeps on growing from whatever activities I'm doing. I keep running into different women that are all really flirty. I realize that I'm in some sort of movie where in the end I'll have to choose one of these women to be with or something to that extent.

At one point a lady was walking by in tears, I sat down with her on fold out chairs in the grassy area the group met at the beginning and asked what was going on. She explains that she just got a call that her apartment bunt down. As I was consoling her about this she takes out a cigarette and starts smoking. I take a mental note that I don't want to be with her in the end because of the smoking aspect.


Then I'm with a group of people and one lady was being really chatty with me. We're getting along pretty well and another lady says something like "Oh it's too bad she's taken, she has a daughter you know" to which the lady I was speaking with replied "Yes I have a daughter but I"M SINGLE, and looking - thank you very much".

A bunch of these cringy situations keep on happening. At one point I'm suddenly jumping from rooftop to rooftop in some very dry, sunny, arid arabic kind of town. I look over the edge of my building to see another one down below, it's shaped like a slice of pizza but it's so very narrow. It was only large enough to have windows and doors on it's sides but it was so incredibly narrow that nobody could possibly be living in it. I stared at it for a bit thinking about how strange it was.

Dream 1

I am levitating and fly towards a massive wine glass shaped building. I enter an opened window.

It seems the room I entered is a doctor's office of sorts. I get the I formation that I am in a country that is cut off from the rest of the world, one that operates under a dictatorship and that I am part of a resistance group.

With this new info in mind, I decide that gathering medical supplies would be a good idea.

I look around, opening closets and cupboards and grab a handful of some supplies.

I go back to the window and fly out of the building.

Dream 1

I’m in a store with Tami, I’m describing something to her but I’m also playing with a plant that has white fuzz on it. As I begin picking it off I realize it’s a cotton plant. The texture and colors look really cool.

She mentions something about the activity of playing with the plant either helps certain people describe what they’re saying better, or to help with listening - not sure which.


Dream 2

James and I have some sort of new hobby where we go into the woods and find tobacco type leaves and then make a fire and burn them in it. We seem to have been using a library to learn about this and we return to it to get some more information on techniques.

The library has massively high vaulted ceilings and it is a very large place with large marble pillars going up into the darkness. It’s sort of an eerie place.

An old astute woman pops up and begins asking us questions about what we’re looking for or what we’ve been up to. James, halfway up a ladder reaching for a book - looks at me and shakes his head as if we shouldn’t speak to the woman. He comes down and pulls me to the side and says we shouldn’t tell her anything, she wants to rip off our process (lol).

I kind of brush that off and fill the woman in on what we’re doing. She realized what James was worried about and then asks us kind of sarcastically “Oh, and where did you learn to do something like that?” - to which I respond “Here”

Dream 1

I see someone pulled up to a McDonalds ordering window in their car. Their window is down, and the person that is supposed to be inside the store taking the order is instead sitting on the person’s car door - the window is all the way down so he’s sort of half sitting at the bottom of the window.

As the customer is telling him his order, their faces get really close and the eye contact is very direct. The man in the car says something he wants, the McDonalds guy asks if he wants anything else. It goes back and forth a bit and the employee ends up backing up a bit and is punching the order into a device on his wrist.

When the man in the car is finished ordering they both turn to the order display screen to confirm everything is correct.

A narrator begins saying how this McDonalds employee is the most dedicated employee McDonalds has. How he’s been blowing up in the news recently because he’s so passionate about his job that he always goes right up to the people in the drive-thru to take their orders face to face (A view appears briefly of him standing out in the rain, enthusiastically taking someone's order by the drive-thru speaker/billboard).

Now he’s speaking with another customer at a drive thru, but he’s offering advice on the Mac Ultra Workstation, and how if you were you purchase a refurbished unit you should double check the GPU to make sure it’s okay because these machines are actually prone to infections - yes he mentions that they are part flesh part machine.

There’s a news segment on this part as well, that he’s offering tech advice.

A first person view from the employee's perspective shows him opening up a letter from the current CEO of McDonalds saying that he deserves a raise for what he’s doing.

Time jumps forward, it’s 4 years later and he’s slightly burnt out now working at a different place. He recalls his time at McDonalds and that he never did get that raise.

I think his name was Micheal.

(This is from yesterday, 12/26/2023)

Dream 1

I’m sitting on a beach with a towel in front of me spread out on the ground. On it I have an assortment of silverware organized with forks, spoons and butter knives - set beside each other as if they were in a silverware drawer. I also have some painkillers such as Tylenol and Aleve in their bottles beneath the silverware.



Tyler is jogging by me and pauses to let me know that he wants to purchase all of the silverware at $900 a piece and to hold it for him when he finishes his jog.


Dream 2


I’m on a small boat with some other people as well, it ended up getting flooded and we needed to return to shore to empty the water from it. As we’re backing into the shore I notice that we are actually backing up in a large pickup truck and the boat is in the bed of the truck (even though the boat was much larger than this previously)

Under the boat on the bed of the truck is a large plastic sheet with little pouches. A woman gives me a piece of lingerie that needs to go into one of the pouches for some reason so I put it into the requested one.


Dream 3

I’m on a boat again and some of the people there include two women that have begun a relationship and previous to this boat ride did not know each other. They were arguing and the darker haired lady wanted to break up. The lighter haired woman took a closed shell gift that was gifted to her previously by the other woman and broke it on the ground - there were some tiny shell fragments inside it that smelled like pine and she said “So this didn’t even actually smell like pine after all huh?” The darker woman responded explaining how the smell of pine is the combination of many micro-organisms working together and that neither the pine tree nor this shell can completely own the smell of pine.

After this the darker haired woman was hitting on me.


Dream 4

Jesse, James and Rohan are running across little skyscrapers - almost a post apocalyptic sort of setting where buildings are hap-hazardly stacked on other buildings. Half way down the building they are standing on there is a narrow boat jutting out of it. Jesse looks quite old with a long white beard.

Jesse jumps from the top of the building, gains a lot of speed while in free fall and then lands violently on the boat.

It was hard to see what happened when he landed as I was on top of another building quite far away, but I now have access to video footage that was tracking him as he landed, it was zoomed in and in extremely-slow motion.

I scrub the video to the point of impact, I watch him slowly begin his landing on the boat and then his feet land and the force of him stopping so hard begins to pull all of his skin downward fighting against his skeleton which came to a complete stop. The skin on the top of his head splits open and his skin slides off his entire body revealing another version of Jesse underneath from 20 years ago or so - the one I am more familiar with.

James and Rohan on the other hand were still standing at the spot Jesse jumped from in disbelief, James found an alternate path to get down to the boat and Rohan followed.


Dream 5

I’m sitting at a table with a bunch of google next/alexa style devices with Tyler and his family. We’re talking about ChatGPT and notice that one of these devices uses ChatGPT. I talk about having a different model of one of these devices.

One of the girls is talking about just how much she uses ChatGPT. I then mention how going back to one of these normal AI assistants is pretty bad after getting used to ChatGPT.


Dream 6

A lady in her 40’s or 50’s on the lower deck of a boat is unhappy about aging. She speaks about how she wonders if her face will generally look the same from now on and mentions that her co-workers have been complimenting her face recently.

She seems overall unhappy with herself and generally sad. Her husband stands nearby but doesn’t say anything. They remind me of Rose/Rich.


Dream 7 (fragment)

I’m trapped beneath a boat underwater. I seem to be pushed against the hull of the boat, maybe because it was accelerating quickly and I was closer to the nose of it.

I drag my fingernail along the hull and notice it’s waxy. It’s very firm, but it comes across as a high tension, inflated stiff object rather than a wooden or metal hull - even though in appearance it looks like some typical boat material.

Dream 1

There were some open sourced large language models (LLM’s) I was playing around with. Someone was telling me that they incorporated them into a site where they are used to assist with filing your taxes but they use some custom (larger parameter) models for this task that are not known to the public. They showed me their codenames and I was really surprised and impressed they had these secret models.


Dream 2 (Warning - there are some disturbing parts in this dream, for anyone that may read this)

I’m in an apartment building with a group of people that were also early to join the generative AI field, as of a few years ago. It was cool to talk with them about what their first impressions were with the SOTA text to image generators/LLM’s, I asked maybe 3 people about this individually for their opinions.

There was a woman I was speaking with about her experience with text to image generators for a live performance she would do. She has an interesting approach where she created a canvas for oil painting which had about 1 inch thick bristles which were coming out of the whole canvas - similar to a doormat - where her image generation would be somehow already hidden within the oil paint pigments in there. Then as she painted with her brush through the bristles, the image would be revealed as the pigments were spread onto the tops of the bristles which were all previously white. It was kind of a way to trick her audience that she was painting something I suppose.


While we were speaking I realized we were appearing live on the TV beside us, we were involved in a live stream - I noticed cameras in the room. Some of the guys I was previously speaking with were in another room in the apartment orchestrating the event.


I am taken time traveling to the future to see a performance this woman is now doing which was not really pleasant. She had spikes being driven down through each collar bone into her ribcage. She did not appear to be in pain and this was all going according to her planned performance.

I am quite disturbed as her body is dismantled until just her head is suspended. I’m left wondering how much blood is left circulating in her skull and how it’s oxygenated, as she still appears to be conscious and composed.

I wonder what drove her to this point in her life, is it somehow tied to an increased escalation of her previous generative audience trickery?


Dream 3

I’m in the lobby of a very upscale hotel/gym/retreat building speaking to the receptionist. We are talking about LLM’s, specifically ChatGPT. I am asking her what she mainly uses it for during work. She says not much really and then puts in an example prompt to show me that it gives rather poor answers.

I explain to her that the free 3.5 version of ChatGPT is pretty bad and it’s annoying to me that a lot of people get their first impression from this version, while the 4.0 paid version performs so much better. I wish OpenAI just got rid of the 3.5 version.

Now my perspective is outside the building, following behind an attractive woman in a bikini heading toward the lobby doors. An attractive muscular man crosses her path and gives her a friendly greeting for a moment as he heads on his way and she continues towards the lobby as the automatic doors slide open for her.

Dream 1

I’m standing in a bathroom that has a very large mirror that takes up one entire wall and another that takes up the wall behind me as well.

I’m in front of the sink and notice in the mirror that when I start walking, copies of myself begin spawning behind me - they leave a trail of where I was, the first one spawns in front of the sink when I step away from it and another one spawns for every other step I take - they all mimic my exact movements.

As I retrace my steps back towards the starting position by the sink, the copies of myself in the mirror merge back into me and vanish, until I’m back at the sink with only me showing in the mirror.

I take this as how mirrors have always worked but find it really curious. I begin experimenting. First I put on a hat and start walking, as the copies of me spawn in the mirror they all have the same hat that I just put on. This makes sense.

I went back to the sink and put my hat on the counter and began walking. The new copies of myself have no hat of course. Once I walk until there are three copies of me, I motion forward with my arm, all of the clones in the mirror do the same. I move my arm around as I watch the arm of the clone by the counter and navigate it so it’s hand lands on the hat, I close my grip - it does the same and grabs the hat. I motion as if I’m putting a hat on my head, and watch as the clone does this until the hat is properly on his head.

Now there’s the clone at the sink with a hat on, one after with no hat and me on the end with no hat at all. Weird!

What if I walk farther, causing the sink clone to walk and a new clone to ‘spawn’ again at the sink, will it have a hat on too? I test this idea and the new one that spawns has no hat!

I keep doing tests and notice there are other things that are odd. For example if I just start to sprint but immediately cancel it, the other mirror clones actually sprint for several steps before sort of rubber-banding back to where they should be.

This opens up the possibility for all sorts of other tests to do but I decide to go talk to other people about this to get their opinions.

I go and find Elisabeth and Brennan and as I ask them what they think about all of this it was hard to get their opinions, this sort of thing was normal in their world.

I then find David who is more scrupulous, but to a fault as he can be, he focuses on details that aren’t very relevant.



Dream 2 (fragment)

I’m in a garage with a car in it, I need to use the bathroom.

Dream 1

I’m driving offroad in an old station wagon style car with Tami in the passenger seat. There’s a grassy plateau that seems designated for a destruction derby sort of setting, where two cars enter and just smash into each other until only one works.

I swap out and have Tami drive. She has trouble getting up to the plateau area and accidentally drives into an underground tunnel. We keep getting deeper and deeper, there are constant forks in the path and it feels like we’re going in impossible directions.

Suddenly we find ourselves in zero gravity, floating in a more cavernous part of the cave. Small things are floating past us, a single rib for instance.

Someone radios in and lets us know that there’s a reset button if we’re stuck. Relieved, we press it and we are instantly teleported back to the surface in the grassy, hilly field.

The plateau was like this but larger and not so raised off the ground:





Dream 2

I see views of a large real life gundam mech. I’m getting the information that it was built to handle complex movements and that it’s very robust. The actuators in particular are very high quality.

An example movement happens as the arms take a rifle and it holds it across the chest. A voice is telling me that the actuators can only move once every 20 minutes or so

I’m confused by the great lengths that were taken to make such a high quality mech, yet it can only take one physical action every 20 minutes? That’s too bad.

Now I’m speaking with a certified ‘screw-hole’ glue guy. Apparently he had to go through a lot of training in order to take a glue gun and squirt colored glue into the holes in the gundam mech that had screws to conceal them..



Dream 3

I’m handing over $100 bills to Danny one at a time and counting. After I’m done handing them to him I try to figure out why I’m doing this, it was for my car or something. We both realize I don’t need to be doing this and I take my money back.

Then we see a large yacht parked on a street, it’s white. It had a ‘hood ornament’ - which was actually a full sized car. I notice that only the front grill and lights of the car looked like a mustang I used to own, Danny agrees that it looks the same.



Dream 4 (fragments)

Elisabeth, Johnny and James are over (Tami was probably there too). After we are done hanging out they all leave.

James ends up coming back, apparently he left on foot (he had a lot of gear and backpacks) - he either got lost or the trip was too far for him to make.


Dream 5 (fragments)

I’m in a fancy apartment in new york city. It’s on a very high floor and has an absolutely amazing view over the city. It’s extremely small and narrow though, like 9 ft wide by 20 ft long.

My new espresso machine (which should arrive tomorrow irl) is set up by the window.

I’m testing a VR game that I’m developing in this dream. Using the valve index controller I made it so dragging down on the touchpad causes some haptics and in the game it pulls back the cocking mechanism on a revolver handgun. It feels pretty satisfying and would probably work pretty well irl.



Dream 6 (fragment)

I’m describing how the wireless RODE microphone system works to Elisabeth. Pointing out that when we first got it we weren’t sure how a certain aspect of it worked, but now after understanding it that it’s not very complicated at all.


Notes:

I would like to increase the vividness of my dreams. When I woke up this morning I was fairly certain that I didn't have much for dreams to recall based on nothing really stuck out in my head. Of course after thinking on it for a bit I got all of these dreams to come forward. I just wish they were more vivid more often, to the point when I wake they just jump out because of how memorable they are.

I guess I'm only a few days into working on building my recall back up again so I don't have to be too rough on myself about that. Before these last few days it's been months since I've tried to recall a dream at all.

Dream 1

I'm in a horror-movie-like scenario. I'm in the bottom floor apartment in a large building and it's very dark outside, as far as I know it's always night time here. The 'main characters' that were with me in this apartment were replaced with older versions of themselves, which unlike the original 'actors' - these older versions of themselves knew that this was a scary scenario and they really wanted to avoid dying.

I look out the window and there is a delivery truck stopping. I get the feeling that not many people are allowed to do things outside, but delivery trucks were one of the exceptions. A few men got out of the front of the truck and went to open the back, I had the feeling that I knew one of them.

There was a woman inside the house but she was unhinged, yelling and throwing things - we knew that she was actually some sort of monster or creature but in human form. We didn't want to point this out though because even though she was being annoying, I got the feeling she was lethal in her monster form.

Then she was talking to one of the 'main character' people, a guy. He had curly hair but was showing signs of balding. There was a photo of him on the wall behind him which showed him with a full head of hair, (because he was actually supposed to be younger in this 'film'). The guy was aware of the picture behind him and the fact that he looked pretty different from his younger self and was really nervous as he spoke with the woman/creature, until he was sweating a lot.

She ended up noticing he wasn't who he was supposed to be and there was a sort of dramatic camera angle showing his shadow on the wall with his hands up to defend himself as he screamed and I guess died somehow. He wasn't in the dream after this.

Then we all paused (including the woman/creature), we could hear the silence coming in. It was like everything was getting progressively quieter outside and it was encircling in on the building. We all started to hide under desks and odd places. Things got quieter and quieter until some sort of shadowy beings appeared behind each person and very slowly pulled everyone away from eachother, outward - through the building walls and into the night until there was a sort of deafening silence and the dream ended.

Dream 2

This dream starts in the building from the previous dream, it's still dark outside but it's no longer the same scenario. I'm sitting at a computer desk with two monitors wwatching a movie, James and Miguel are behind me also watching along. They were on a couch that was on a raised portion of the floor, because of this I was raising and tilting the monitor so they could see better - but then it would be turned too much towards them and I would adjust it back to me a bit so I could see too. For some reason this was really annoying and I had adjust the monitor over and over again.

At one point I accidentally hit the corner of the monitor I was adjusting onto the 2nd monitor and it looked like I cracked the screen, which sucked because that one was the 240hz monitor. But when I looked closer the cracks started to pull themselves back together, sort of like how the cracks in the mirror did the same thing in the Matrix movie. The monitor was alright after all.

The movie we were watching was about a computer hacker or something. Then at a certain point the movie paused at a hacking scene and turned into an interactive hacking moment. I had to take over and start doing actions, which was annoying because I just wanted to watch the movie.

Then a dog came around the corner from another room in the apartment, it was a bull terrier but it was completely missing it's nose. As it breathed and swallowed and stuff I could see it's nose/insides moving all strange - it was so gross. A lady came around the corner and saw me just staring at the dog, she laughed and exclaimed that 'oh he's fine, he can smell better this way!'

Dream 1

I take a cup out of a freezer and go to drink it but notice it has mercury in it. I show Tami and then leave it on a table. She then starts playing with it and gets it on her face and it starts to cover her skin in a similar way to gallium. I was pretty freaked out over the toxicity of this. Just like gallium, it comes off easily with soap.

Dream 2

I find myself about 18 years old, most of the other people are as well. I'm on some sort of cruise with Tami. I find myself as sort of a hostage. I peer out from the deck at a cul de sac, it's as if I'm looking out the front door of a house (yet I'm on a boat) and the homes are full of bodies, my captors did this.

View from the boat of the cul de sac.


There was a girl that wanted to swim with me but I wasn't interested. She ended up laying down on a very large sail-like structure above me. I found out she had an identical sister who then went up and laid down by her, they were sun tanning - though it was now getting dark.

Then a third sister of theirs with dark hair was talking with me a bit before going up to meet the other two, she was very friendly.

Then I met their mom and we were talking about me having dry eyes. She was saying if I got some sort of surgical lens installed I would be cured. I was interested in this and she said she could inspect my eyes and let me know if I was eligible.

She then says she can do this inspection while we go on a two person sort of boat ride. The ride goes from your present and into your future, and you discuss with each other about what is seen during the ride. She mentions in an off hand way that there is also the possibility to go into the past and sort of brushes it off with 'but yeah, you know - that's optional we don't have to do that'. I get the impression that secretly she wants to do that part of the ride the most.

While we were talking I had a vision of what this boat ride would have looked like:


For some reason I need my clothes washed before going on this ride. I find a tiny secret door in a wall and push my clothes into it and watch them fall downward. I go down one level on the boat to see where they went.



Turns out they landed in a large washing machine but there were already a ton of clothes in it. I contemplate turning it on or removing all the other clothes and only putting mine in so I can run it at a faster setting so I can finish this quicker and go onto that ride.

I wasn't very interested in the ride thing, but nothing else was going on.

Dream 1

Jean-Luc Picard was sitting in a chair on the Enterprise in his private quarters and was holding an i-Pad like device. He put it down and exclaimed that there's such a backlog of technological advances that have been made by AI that he will never get through them. And on top of that, all the information he was sifting through was from 10 years ago when he was last on earth - the amount that things must have advanced since then back on earth must be astounding.

Dream 1

I had patented a remote controller for phones and learned that some guy was infringing on my patent. I stalked him, he walked to the end of a dock and rested his hands on the railing as he looked out at the ocean. I snuck under the dock and saw that his shoe was sticking out over the edge by a few inches. So I cut a little hole in the bottom of his shoe and his money began to pour out, I held out a bag under it and bagan collecting the money.